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Catholic on a meandering vocation journey; KofC 3rd Degree; avid reader; music lover; sports fan; geek; retired RCNR⚓; ISFJ; Phlegmatic

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Hmmmm I like this idea of using a sarcastrophe!

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35 years ago today: El Presidente, El Perfecto!

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@MelissaCeciliaG I'm used to it.. I know most are well intended. Honestly I have other priorities (like caring for my mom) that take president in my life

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Word of the Day

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[Melissa Cecilia @MelissaCeciliaG]

Bakers, I need your favorite recipe for easy homemade whole wheat bread. whole wheat bread only. I got a bread maker that mixes the ingredients for me. I just need a list of ingredients and how much of each ingredient per 1.5 lbs of bread (that’s how much the bread maker makes).

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@VinnysCorner1 Tony Perez

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3) it's such a blessing to be able to spend time with family watching the movie. Too often the chance to spend time with loved is missed and you never know if the opportunity will come around again.

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So spent the evening with my mom watching the original Ben-Hur movie with Charleston Heston and few reflections: 1) they absolutely don't tell stories in movies like this anymore; 2) it's amazing how often God is mentioned and isn't just a swear word; and 3)...

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[Anthony Esolen @AnthonyEsolen]

Quite frequently, when I'm doing some research on the composer of a melody for a hymn, or on the author, or on the lives of poets, singers, musicians, actors, or inventors before, say, 1950, and especially before 1900, I'm struck by how many boys were already doing serious work before they could grow a beard, and sometimes long before. So then, Henry Gauntlett, the composer of the melody St. Albinus, for "Jesus Lives," was the organist at the famous Olney Church when he was NINE years old. He ended up composing more than 1000 melodies for hymns and sacred texts, and he was an organ-builder and patent-holder to boot.

I really do see such things all the time, and it isn't just from the absolute greats, like the boy James Clerk Maxwell inventing, with pins and twine, methods of constructing curves with more than two foci. You find them in a lesser vein everywhere you look, too: like James Fields, at age 14 apprenticed to a New England bookseller, and by age 21 he's the chief LITERARY agent and judge for what eventually became known as Ticknor and Fields, the most important publishers of high-quality literary books and journals in the United States.

School, such as we have it now, as John Taylor Gatto argued long ago, is a sludging-up and maturity-delaying and thought-suppressing and genius-dulling enterprise. We need very different kinds of schools -- AND we need to de-couple paper credentials from employment, as much as we can. The best way to make colleges more affordable is to make the diploma less necessary: to kick the colleges out of their privileged positions as turnpike-keepers. And that will require retrenchment of employment laws and practices that have, in effect, squeezed out the lower classes from such jobs as a bright Tom Edison, unschooled, might otherwise get. Let the employers hire whom they will -- let them roll the dice and take the consequences.

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@canonlawyered Gary Carter

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Today in Canada, we honour Saint Pope John Paul II in remembrance of his legacy and contributions to peace, human rights, and freedom.

Pray for us.

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@breeadail Just avoid the Titanic replica...

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@brianlilley I can smell this too!

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Disability advocate Frank Stephens speaks out about high abortion rates of Down syndrome babies.

“I am a man with Down Syndrome and my life is worth living...see me as a human being- not a birth defect. Not a syndrome. I don’t need to be eradicated.”

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@MelissaCeciliaG I would lay odds that sleep shall win but I won't be awake to find out 🤣